Our statement on Wayne Couzens guilty plea for the murder of Sarah Everard
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Holding the state to account and challenging discrimination in the justice system around male violence against women and girls. RTs are not endorsements.
- Former music teacher who RAPED two girls aged 13 and 14 convicted of 32 sexual offences. Come on @BBCNews let's get it right! #RapeJusticeNowFormer music teacher who had sex with two girls aged 13 and 14 convicted of 32 sexual offences bbc.in/3lw1dAv
- MI5 has apologised for failing to promptly disclose information to our client 'Beth' who was attacked with a machete by one of its agents.
- “more than one woman a week coming forward in London to report that their husband or partner, a serving officer in the Met, has been seriously abusing them” #TooManyBadApples
- Only 8% of police officers accused of abuse of wives or girlfriends have been disciplined and half of those kept their jobs.
- "A woman who alleged that a man had raped her at gunpoint was told in a CPS letter that the weapon “was not a serious threat” during the alleged attack, and that the man may have thought she consented"
- We know so many women serving life sentencing for murder after lashing out in fear of their abusers, yet this man who is described as using "grooming" techniques to exert "coercive and controlling behaviour" over women, escapes a murder conviction
- Rapists who father children as result of crimes should be blocked from automatic parental rights, MP says
- 📣Help us challenge Priti Patel’s decision not to conduct a Statutory Inquiry re: police perpetrated violence against women & girls Read our thread of some of the issues the Inquiry refuses to look into, to see why we’re going to Court #TooManyBadApples
- A huge congratulations to our awesome client Daisy @rapeconception ! Her tireless campaigning has changed the law! 👏
- Not even a week after the second reading of the Domestic Abuse Bill in @UKHouseofLords, the Government is seeking to pass a Bill which would enable undercover operatives to commit violence against women, including rape and sexual violence, with impunity. #nostatesanctionedVAWG
- A woman is killed every 3 days in the UK. The sad truth is that the deaths of many of these women are overlooked by the mainstream media. With your help these women can be remembered, honoured and made visible. uk.virginmoneygiving.com/charity-web/ch… #DisappearingWomen #MaleViolence
- We are appalled by today’s verdict. This will not go unchallenged.@justice4women with other leading UK-based feminists will coordinate a massive campaign 4 justice in the Cyprus rape allegation case. The ramifications & potential dire consequences go way beyond the injustice this young woman has suffered. The guilty verdict must be overturned.
